KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – During The Department of Tennessee’s The American Legion Convention in Knoxville held in June, The Douglas M. Lyons Dover Post 72 was awarded the Sam D. Stooksberry Memorial Award and received Second Place for the Post Consolidated Report Submission.

The Sam D. Stooksberry Award is presented in memory of the Past Department of Tennessee Commander and Membership Chairman Sam. D. Stooksberry to the Post that achieves the greatest percentage of increase in Post Membership, when compared to the previous year’s membership. Dover Post membership was at 188 percent for 2014.

Dover Post 72 also received a Certificate of Achievement in recognition of exceptional and outstanding achievement in the annual “Best Consolidated Post Report” competition and as evidence of being the Department of Tennessee’s Second Place Winner for 2013-2014.

The Post Consolidated Report is a detailed report of each post’s activities submitted each year to the Department of Tennessee and National Headquarters. This is an amazing accomplishment for Dover Post 72 considering the Department of Tennessee consists of 189 individual American Legion Posts.